This article explores popular-musical invocations of the Northern Ireland conflict (1968–1998), focussing specifically on the period between the IRA hunger strike of 1981 and the British Government's Broadcasting Act in 1988. Whilst most songs addressed to the ‘Troubles’ were marked by (lyrical) abstraction and (political) non-alignment, this period witnessed a series of efforts that issued upfront and partisan views. The article explores two such instances – by That Petrol Emotion and Easterhouse – addressing each band's respective views as well as the specific performance strategies that they deployed in staging their interventions. Drawing on original interviews that the author has conducted with the musicians – alongside extensive archival research of print and audio/visual media – the article explores the bands’ songs in conjunction with salient ancillary media (such as record sleeves, videos and interviews), yielding a more nuanced account of popular music's engagement with the ‘Troubles’ than has been offered in existing work (which often assumes the form of broad surveys).

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“鼓动、教育、组织”：党派偏见、流行音乐和北爱尔兰冲突

本文探讨了北爱尔兰冲突（1968-1998）的流行音乐调用，特别关注 1981 年爱尔兰共和军绝食和 1988 年英国政府广播法之间的时期。虽然大多数针对“麻烦”的歌曲都被标记通过（抒情）抽象和（政治）不结盟，这一时期见证了一系列发表正面和党派观点的努力。这篇文章探讨了两个这样的例子 - That Petrol Emotion 和 Easterhouse - 解决了每个乐队各自的观点以及他们在进行干预时部署的具体表演策略。